In today’s A-Z challenge, we asked Jenna Leigh-Raine to tell us all about herself through 26 fun questions.
A song that made you want to make music?
It was This Wreckage by Gary Numan. I saw him perform it on Top of the Pops and I was struck. That’s what I wanted to be.
Best rider you have had?
Well of my own it was at the SONY lot in Burbank, Los Angeles where I performed a track on a TV show. I had to choose from a grass smoothie or vodka, I went for the latter.
A funny story was backstage at Wembley Arena, my friends were supporting Bryan Adams and I was accused of drinking all the Jack Daniels so the manager was brought in for a meeting in the dressing room. It was hilarious – a real spinal tap moment.
Craziest moment as an artist?
Singing live on the The Gong Show, and the producer tells you 53 million people would have seen you across the US by tonight.
Deepest lyric one of your songs features?
You Protect The Children
In Darkness Kill Them
(From KHROSSES, the new single)
Easiest song you wrote?
INTRUSION from 1987, which became the name of my label from many, many years ago.
Favourite song in your set?
I’ve been out this year playing mostly the brand new stuff from next year’s album. But I did enjoy HORROR SIDE as it requires a lot of guitar playing live.
Guest you’d most like to feature on your record?
Gary Numan, Avril Lavigne.
Hardest thing about being a solo artist?
Always being alone where you doubt and feel you have to do everything.
Interesting fact about you?
I’m a medium. I can mentally travel to a client and explain rooms in their home. A couple of decades ago I was very much busy as a remote viewer, offering my sightings for missing or dead people.
Joke you like to tell?
Too rude, it’s a smutty lesbian one.
Key to writing a song?
Truth and experiences.
Longest distance you’ve travelled to play a show?
Lost Angeles. I’ve also been asked to play at the Whisky A GoGo on Sunset Blvd some point next year.
Most inspiring musician you’ve experienced?
David Sylvian, hands down. If you want to be inside your energy spirit soul if you will – Sylvian forever. I actually finally got to meet him though, I bumped into him near to me. I’ve met through both my work as a medium and musician major artists like Michael Jackson in 2006 and that was incredible, but David was the one person that always had alluded me. He was funny, kind and we chatted for ages.
New band/artist you’d recommend?
Nocturne’s Kiss – the talent in this guy is incredible. He’s from Seattle, he’s amazing.
Place you’d most like to tour?
USA and Asia but Paris is next on my list.
Quote that you’d like to pass on to our readers?
You must do what you love. Take risks so not to wish and regret after.
Reason for the title of your forthcoming release?
The EP, OUTTER LIMITED, precedes the album SVREN. SVREN is the central character; a woman surviving outside from a dark humanoid.
See me live at?
TBA. I’ve gigs to announce soon which I will announce on Instagram.
The old days of music were better than the current, do you agree?
The difference is that back then were full of tribes, genre, colour and excitement from the rockers, goths, futurists, grungers, punk, etc. You don’t really have new ideas now. For me the excitement exists in the more subversive, dark levels of human actions on the world and the battles of people, religion and fake gods.
Unusual merchandise?
I like to send fans prints that they can’t get anywhere from video, from screenshots to artworks and unused pictures.
Variations you’d like to do on one of your songs?
My recent album DEIMO has a sister second version of alternative versions called The Intelligent. It was fun yet exhausting. I don’t want to do any variations for a while.
What do your fans mean to you?
Gratitude.
X-rays or any other treatments needed for performance-related injuries?
Hide the pain get through the ‘Show’. I was suffering extreme sciatica and nerve damage flare up this summer meaning it was hard to stand. But the adrenaline of performing for a audience kept me going until it was done and I laid down in my dressing room.
You’re late for a show, whose fault is it?
Traffic
Zoo animal that best describes the personality of you?
Koala